Chapter 2 Overview
Verse 2.12
न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः। न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम्।।2.12।।
na tvevāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ na chaiva na bhaviṣhyāmaḥ sarve vayamataḥ param
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 12
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
Nor, at any time, was I not, nor thou, nor these rulers of men; nor, verily, shall we ever cease to be hereafter.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: 'never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you' functions less as abstract metaphysics and more as reassurance, you've moved through change before.
In life: every major transition feels like an ending, when it's often just another one of many.
Teaching: when something feels unbearably final, ask what in you has actually survived every earlier version of this same fear.
nanever
tuhowever
evacertainly
ahamI
jātuat any time
nanor
āsamexist
nanor
tvamyou
nanor
imethese
jana-adhipāḥkings
nanever
chaalso
evaindeed
na bhaviṣhyāmaḥshall not exist
sarve vayamall of us
ataḥfrom now
paramafter
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
2.12 न not? तु indeed? एव also? अहम् I? जातु at any time? न not? आसम् was? न not? त्वम् thou? न not? इमे these? जनाधिपाः rulers of men? न not? च and? एव also? न not? भविष्यामः shall be? सर्वे all? वयम् we? अतः from this time? परम् after.Commentary -- Lord Krishna speaks here of the immortality of the Soul or the imperishable nature of the Self (Atman). The Soul exists in the three periods of time (past? present and future). Man continues to exist even after the death of the physical body. There is life beyond.